About the film: year - Awards /: Oscar1 / 2017 / 2 hours 1 min. thriller / documentary / The plot of the film " Icarus ": The hero of the documentary film "Icarus" is an athlete who decided to understand in detail the doping systems. For this purpose, he seeks the help of a specialist from Russia to conduct an experiment with him and find out how to cheat doping tests. Both will thus find themselves at the epicenter of a loud scandal, as a result of which Russian athletes were expelled from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.